December 21, 2011, Wednesday

MOSCOW -- If there was ever a moment for a Communist comeback, it would seem to be now. The Communists were big winners in recent parliamentary elections, capturing nearly 20 percent of the popular vote and cementing their place as the most...

December 9, 2007, Sunday

The leader of Russia's Communists has retained control of his party, according to decision by the Justice Ministry. Last month, the remnants of the Communist Party held two simultaneous congresses. Both claimed to be official. At one, a breakaway...

August 4, 2004, Wednesday

When Russia's Communist Party convened what might have been its grand party congress this weekend, the setting could hardly have been more bleak. The concert hall booked for the occasion was nearly half empty. And somehow -- the leadership called it...

July 5, 2004, Monday

Roughly 5,000 Communist Party supporters marched in Moscow, and tens of thousands throughout Russia, to mark the 85th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution that brought the Communists to power in Russia in 1917. The Communist leader...

November 8, 2002, Friday

Russia's defense minister, Sergei B. Ivanov, said today that 114 of 147 passengers on a military helicopter that crashed in a Chechnya minefield on Monday were killed, as the incident placed political pressure on President Vladimir V. Putin, who has...

August 21, 2002, Wednesday

The leader of the Communist Party denounced last weekend's summit meeting between President Bush and President Vladimir V. Putin as a sellout of Russia's national interests and security, saying Mr. Putin allowed Mr. Bush to ''walk all over him and...